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| 01/04/2007
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Goldberg readers and subscribers can take advantage of an exclusive offer to purchase a pack containing all the 5-star recordings reviewed in each edition of the magazine.
Take advantage of an exclusive offer to purchase 9 new 5 Star releases from only 110 Euros. |
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| 13/04/2007
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| Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707) is the most important German composer between Schütz and J. S. Bach and the best representative of the German-Danish musical culture of the Baltic Sea, which was at its peak at the time. His output doesn’t bear the stamp of a genius, thanks to which the great composers took the style of their time to its highest level of perfection, but that of a musical culture that far exceeded the limits of mere craftsmanship. |
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| 19/04/2007
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| The American Musical Instrument Society holds its 36th annual meeting at the end of June. This international society was founded in 1971 to promote better understanding of all aspects of musical instruments in all cultures and from all periods. |
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| 23/04/2007
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| While the gushing reactions that seem to greet every release of Latin American pre-Classical music as an unknown treasure often conveniently ignore the pioneering work of Gabriel Garrido and others on the K617 label (and, most importantly, of the indefatigable Piotr Nawrot and other musicologists), in this case there is a good deal to gush about. |
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| 20/04/2007
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12 May to 24 June.
The Aranjuez Early Music Festival has become one of the top dates on the summer music calendar in Spain, thanks to its setting, programme and zeal to recover Spain’s musical heritage and ever-innovative spirit. This year is the 16th festival and the programming offers a variety of themes. |
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| 23/04/2007
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| The review of these responsories on the MD+G label in Goldberg 12 brought to our attention another recording made in Finland about the same time. This is a smaller ensemble, two voices to a part, with a smaller continuo group (organ and cello only). |
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| 26/04/2007
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26 May to 2 June.
The eighth Tiana Antica Festival, organised by Visigòdia, features four concerts that come under the umbrella of early music, ranging from Gregorian chant to Bach, as well as concerts of music from the time of Hernando Columbus and the music and poetry of Juan del Encina, respectively. |
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| 27/04/2007
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| In the booklet notes accompanying this CD, Théodora Psychoyou makes the connection between the creative visualisations of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises and Charpentier’s use of musical rhetoric, suggesting both 'help Man become aware of his freedom with regard to salvation and sin'. |
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| 28/04/2007
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16 June to 8 July.
Now in its fifth year, the Trigonale will be presenting a total of 17 events under the overarching title “Elements”. A raft of artists and ensembles of international stature as well as up-and-coming young groups active in early music have developed sacred and secular programmes inspired by natural models, the emotions and intrinsically musical structures. |
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| 02/04/2007
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| Mateo Flecha, el Viejo, is one of the best-known Spanish composers of the Renaissance, despite his small output. But as Maricarmen Gómez explains in her article in this issue, this recognition did not come until 1955, when Higinio Anglés transcribed half a dozen of his ensaladas. |
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